April Meeting Recap

2022 Theme - Exploring Modern

April Meeting topic : Modern Traditionalism

What is Modern Traditionalism? The term " Modern Traditionalism" generally refers to any quilt that has a traditional pattern, block, or design as its foundation, modernized in some way using one or more modern techniques.

 - we saw an educational video on how to create modern blocks

 - we divided into groups for hands on exercises to turn traditional blocks into modern ones.  

Our second quarter challenge - make a quilt of any size in the Modern Traditionalism theme.  Your finished quilt is due at the July meeting.

Announcements:

Upcoming quilt show

                   - North Pittsburgh Quilters Guild  -  April 22-24

                      at Ross Township Community Center

 Retreat Information:

where:         Crestfield Conference Center

                     Slippery Rock, Pa

when :         Friday, May 13 - Sunday, May 15

Check your email for details.

Upcoming meetings in 2022

Saturday 23-April Museum 1:00 pm Greensburg Westmoreland Museum Visit

Sunday 1-May Meeting 1:00 - 4:00 pm Live/Zoom Exploring Alternate Grid/T-Shirt Quilts

Fri-Sun 13-15 May Retreat Crestfield Conference Center, Slippery Rock, PA

Sunday 5-June Meeting 1:00 - 4:00 pm Live/Zoom Quilt repair workshop

Sunday 26-June* Sewcial 1:00 - 3:00 pm Zoom Sewcial *one week later than usual

Upcoming lecture and workshop in July:

Designing with Negative Space with Sylvia Schaefer.

Stay tuned for more information.

Show and Tell

Our next meeting is on Sunday, May 1st, 1 pm - 4 pm. The topic: Exploring Alternate Grid Quilts and using Alternate Grid in T-shirt Quilts.

We meet in-person at Holy Spirit Parish, Millvale. The GPS address is 608 Farragut Street, Pittsburgh 15209. We meet in the Cafeteria. The entrance is not on Farragut but on the opposite side of the church building, across from Hahn Funeral Home near Howard Street.

Guests are welcome and may attend two meetings at no charge. We hope to see you there!

 January 2022 Meeting Recap

On January 6th we had our annual business meeting.

Our Agenda was:

- Membership roster distribution to members in February

       update your contact information if needed, email will be sent to members with instructions

- 2021 Budget

        Review of budget documents emailed to members

- Leadership elections

- 2021 Challenge winner drawing.  Every member who complete a quarterly quilt challenge gets an entry to win a spot our Annual Retreat. Congratulations to Tracey Z! She will receive a free overnight stay at our 2022 Retreat.

- 2021 Workshop Review

        Hand dying : 10 slots - 7 registered

        Freestyling spirals : 20 slots - 19 registered

       Circular explorations : 20 slots - 18 registered

- 2021 Retreat was a success!

 LEADERSHIP ELECTIONS

Every January our members vote on the leadership positions. Leaders voted on for 1 year term with maximum of two tears in a position.

Big thank you for Barbara Cain for her work as Treasurer for the past 2 years.

Welcome to our leaders for 2022

President - Karen Womack

Treasurer - Jennifer Laverty

Programs - Mary Gregg

Membership - Gail Gausman

Social Media - Zsofia Molgaard

- Zoom Sewcials are held on the 3th Sunday every month 1pm - 3 pm. Members will receive an email with the link.

2022 Theme: Exploring Modern . Our quarterly challenges are 

          Q1 : MQG inspired design

          Q2 : Modern Negative Space

          Q3 : Modern Traditionalism

          Q4 : Free choice : I explored modern

Upcoming Zoom Workshop

   Walk the Talk and Quilt It with Sheri Cifaldi-Morrill

   Saturday, March 12 10 am- 5 pm

Our next in-person  meeting is on Sunday February 6th 1pm - 4pm. We hope to see you there!

May 2017 Meeting Recap

This month we combined our monthly meeting with an all day sewing retreat.

At our meeting we recognized the members of our guild who had quilts in the Three Rivers Quilt Show and those that won ribbons. They can be found here.

Entries for the Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza (PNQE) show in Philadelphia must be sent in by June 3, 2017. Details here.

All guild members are encouraged to participate in the Modern Solids Challenge. We are to make a 24" square mini quilt using all solids in the colors of our logo. These minis will hang in the PNQE show as a display together. Please bring your completed mini to the June meeting! You can find progress photos on Instagram at #pghmqgmsc and what I'm seeing so far is impressive! (Check out our new page on this website to read up on all current and past guild challenges going on!)

The Modern Quilt Guild has announced the next Charity Quilt Challenge guidelines. The theme is modern-traditionalism. Brainstorm some ideas for our next quilt and submit your ideas via e-mail to the guild. We'll decide on an idea at our June meeting.

Our next meeting will be Sunday June 4 from 1-4pm at The Pittsburgh Project. Amanda will be speaking about how modern quilters use social media to connect, find inspiration, and share their work. 

Upcoming Programs:

Sew Day June 10, 2017 at Quilter's Corner 10-4 E-vite coming soon!

Shibori Workshop, possible date July 29th, details TBA

Screen printing Workshop Fall 2017

Hand Applique is the program topic for the July 2017 meeting

We welcomed two new members this month bringing our total to 56!

Reminder: It's time to pay your annual dues! You can check out this info on our website for all the 411 on dues amount and how to pay: click here. 

Inspiration Blocks:

Amanda

Gail

B

Gail

Gerry

Sharon

Show and Tell:

Sally

B

Michelle

Nikki

New member Cathy

B

 March Meeting Recap

Announcements:

New Post office address:

                                         Pittsburgh Modern Quilt Guild

                                          c/o Jennifer Laverty

                                          P.O. Box 105

                                          Wexford PA 15090

March 19th is National Quilt Day

Quilt Shows:

Original Sew and Quilt Expo - April 7,8,9

                                                Akron OH / www.sewingexpo.com

Lancaster Quilt Show - March 23-26

                                               Doubletree Willow Valley Resort, Lancaster

                                               www.thelancasterquiltshow.com

Three Rivers Quilt Show - April 7,8,9

                                               Hollywood Casino at the Meadows

North Pittsburgh Quilters Guild - April 22-24

                                               Ross Township Community Center

Quilt Classes Online

                                   Introduction to Electric Quilt 8

                                   Sunday, March 20 / 10 am- 1 pm

                                   Fern Hollow Designs / click on virtual classes with Linda

QuiltCon 2023 will be held at the Atlanta Convention Center at AmericasMart in Atlanta, Georgia. Featured speaker is Chawne Kimber. You can find her on Instagram @cauchycomplete.

Retreat information

where:                      Crestfield Conference Center

                                  Slippery Rock, PA

when:                        Friday, May 13 - Sunday, May 15 

check your email for details.

First quarterly challenge quilts due by April 3rd meeting. Q1 challenge is MQG inspired design. Download a free pattern from the MQG journal to give it a try.

Our next Zoom sewcial is on Sunday, March 20th 1pm-3pm. 

Our next in-person meeting is on April 3rd 1pm-4pm. This meeting will focus on Modern Traditionalism. We hope to see you there!

The Pittsburgh Modern Quilt Guild has enjoyed participating in multiple previous

QuiltCon Charity Quilt Challenges. We’ve learned to solicit design ideas from our

guild members and form a committee to organize the quilt making (buying all the fabric
 for the quilt, making packets for members to make blocks from, etc.)

An informal brainstorming session on the theme of Modern Traditionalism resulted

in a lot of fun design ideas, including focusing on one traditional block and using a

lot of low volume prints.

I loved the idea of deconstructing a traditional block by using color untraditionally to 
highlight only some elements of the block. I envisioned a confetti of colors across a

low volume quilt.

The traditional Greek Cross block stood out as a great starting point with its mix of

half-square triangles, rectangles, and squares. Since many members had enjoyed

the challenge of improv piecing in some of our guild’s previous QuiltCon charity quilts, 
we left it up to the members if they wanted to use traditional or improv piecing

to make their block(s).

One of the best parts of making a group quilt is seeing the quilt come together

during a group sew day. It was great to see all the variations among the blocks our

members had made and how well they all came together as a quilt top.

Then, of course, it’s amazing to see how the quilting ties everything together and

transforms a quilt! Long-arm quilter

Nikki Maroon (http://www.thegirlwhoquilts.com/)

used straight-line quilting to create the cross and HST elements of one large

Greek Cross block using contrasting thread.  The “background” areas of the large

Greek Cross block were quilted with graffiti quilting to add visual interest without distracting

from the impact of the straight lines.

We are excited to have our guild quilt hanging at QuiltCon in Pasadena, CA this

year. We are also hoping to enter it in a few local shows in 2018 so that more of our

members have the opportunity to see the quilt on display!  And finally, in the

coming months we will discuss as a guild where we would like to donate the quilt.